Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public DiscourseUniversity of Texas Press, 15 jun 2002 - 402 páginas ". . . awash under a brown tide . . . the relentless flow of immigrants . . . like waves on a beach, these human flows are remaking the face of America . . ." Since 1993, metaphorical language such as this has permeated mainstream media reporting on the United States’ growing Latino population. In this groundbreaking book, Otto Santa Ana argues that far from being mere figures of speech, such metaphors produce and sustain negative public perceptions of the Latino community and its place in American society, precluding the view that Latinos are vested with the same rights and privileges as other citizens. Applying the insights of cognitive metaphor theory to an extensive natural language data set drawn from hundreds of articles in the Los Angeles Times and other media, Santa Ana reveals how metaphorical language portrays Latinos as invaders, outsiders, burdens, parasites, diseases, animals, and weeds. He convincingly demonstrates that three anti-Latino referenda passed in California because of such imagery, particularly the infamous anti-immigrant measure, Proposition 187. Santa Ana illustrates how Proposition 209 organizers broadcast compelling new metaphors about racism to persuade an electorate that had previously supported affirmative action to ban it. He also shows how Proposition 227 supporters used antiquated metaphors for learning, school, and language to blame Latino children’s speech—rather than gross structural inequity—for their schools’ failure to educate them. Santa Ana concludes by calling for the creation of insurgent metaphors to contest oppressive U.S. public discourse about minority communities. |
Índice
Why Study the Public Discourse Metaphors Depicting Latinos? | 1 |
Theory and Method | 13 |
How Metaphor Shapes Public Opinion | 15 |
Analyses | 63 |
Proposition 187 Misrepresenting Immigrants and Immigration | 65 |
Proposition 209 Competing Metaphors for RACISM and AFFIRMATIVE ACTION | 104 |
Student as Means Not End Contemporary American Discourse on Education | 156 |
American Discourse on NATION and LANGUAGE The English for the Children Referendum | 197 |
DISEASE or INTRUDER Metaphors Constructing the Place of Latinos in the United States | 253 |
Insurgent Metaphors Contesting the Conventional Representations of Latinos | 295 |
Tallies of Political Metaphors | 321 |
Notes | 333 |
References | 365 |
Permissions Acknowledgments | 393 |
Index | 395 |
Conclusions | 251 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public ... Otto Santa Ana Vista previa restringida - 2010 |
Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public ... Otto Santa Ana Vista de fragmentos - 2002 |
Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public ... Otto Santa Ana Vista de fragmentos - 2002 |
Términos y frases comunes
affirmative action African American Angeles Anglo-American associated Aztlán bilingual education Brimelow California campaign Chapter characterized Chávez Chicano child citizens citizenship Civil Rights classes classroom cognitive communication conceptual conceptual metaphor contemporary critical critical discourse analysis cultural DANGEROUS WATERS database discourse analysis disease dominant metaphor economic EDUCATION AS PATH English language English-only everyday excerpt expressed factory guage Hispanic human ideology illegal immigrants immi individual institutional issue Journal Kerner Commission Lakoff Latinos learning linguistic literacy Los Angeles mainstream Malcolm X mapping mass media meta Mexican American minority monolingual NATION AS BODY NATION AS HOUSE neoconservatives ontology PATH metaphor percent phor practices programs Proposition 187 public discourse public education public schools race racial reference referendum Section semantic domain source domain Spanish speak structure target domain teachers theory tion U.S. public U.S. society United white racism worldview York
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